Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he unleashes one of his fiercest tirades in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees and ...

Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others. Two men went up ...

Jesus enters with with the flock of pilgrims ... The priests, then, really are in charge of the Temple itself the Temple Proper. PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES Who were the Pharisees and the Sadducees?

Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about ...

In that sense, Jesus' criticism of the Temple sounds very much like the Pharisees wanting to bring piety home. Wanting to make it much more personal. Another possibility though is that Jesus ...

Jesus wants to teach people ... and look down on others – that is, the Pharisees. Jews had to pray three times a day and people would go to the temple for private prayer. The tax collector ...